Publix Is The Best!

[Go2gtr]

Originally Posted by Dreamliner

I've concluded that it's easier and cheaper to go through life easy to please. I can't honestly tell the difference between the fake-Corona I'm drinking now, and the real Corona I was drinking when I was paying twice as much for beer.

Where do you get fake Corona?

BTW, Trader Joe's has two-buck chuck, judged the finest chardonnay produced in California when compared by world-class wine tasters with the most expensive elite wines the state produces. It's now up to $2.99/bottle, which ain't bad considering it beat out the $60/$70/$80 per bottle stuff.

[gator0254]

If I am going to have shrimp my usual move is to go to Mayport and pick up the jumbos at Safe Harbor seafood - when I was growing up it was actually the site of Monties Marina - now a wonderful seafood shop

[toon66]

Originally Posted by gator0254

If I am going to have shrimp my usual move is to go to Mayport and pick up the jumbos at Safe Harbor seafood - when I was growing up it was actually the site of Monties Marina - now a wonderful seafood shop

Pick mine up at the shrimp docks here in Tampa. Pretty much grew up running around those docks at Hooker's Point as well as the docks in Tarpon and Titusville. Did a few days in Mayport on my uncle's shrimp boat back in the early 80's.

[raycgator]

Originally Posted by gator0254

If I am going to have shrimp my usual move is to go to Mayport and pick up the jumbos at Safe Harbor seafood - when I was growing up it was actually the site of Monties Marina - now a wonderful seafood shop

Love that place... Shrimp, red snapper, mussells, fresh off the boat

[RayGator]

Originally Posted by gator1986

I worked there for a while, it sucks working, but great to shop...

I'm sorry that was your experience. I know many people who work at Publix. Many. And not a single one has ever told me that was their experience. Not a single one. Quite the contrary.

And they seem to attract the best workers. They get these young guys who come in after school and are awesome in their customer service. An on the other hand, in mornings when the the young guys are in school they have the older, retired men to help out in customer service.

When I go up North every year to Ohio for Memorial Day time to spend with relatives, I have to go to Krogers or other stores, and I realize how blessed we are in Florida to have Publix! Those other stores are a million miles behind Publix!

[RayGator]

Originally Posted by LeafUF

Seriously I sometimes wonder if you Floridians know how good you have it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/newu1085/rea...ore-to-ev-654m

No doubt one of the best benefits being retired and living in Lakeland is that it is the hometown for Publix!

I'm never more than 5 minutes from one! And where I live on South Florida Avenue I have a Publix just 1 mile north of me at South Gate. Another Publix 1 1/4 miles south of me at Lake Merriam Square. Another Publix just 1 1/2 miles west of me on Harden Boulevard near Lakeside Village. There are some things in life that are great!

When I was a kid growing up in Miami, we didn't have Publix stores down there then. When I was in the 10th grade, Publix built there first store there, Coral Way and Galloway, about a mile from us. When my Mom learned they was going to be a Publix near us, she was all excited. She had already known about them somehow. Of course as a teenager I didn't know what the big deal was! Just another grocery store, right? Right.

[swampbabe]

Originally Posted by RayGator

No doubt one of the best benefits being retired and living in Lakeland is that it is the hometown for Publix!

I'm never more than 5 minutes from one! And where I live on South Florida Avenue I have a Publix just 1 mile north of me at South Gate. Another Publix 1 1/4 miles south of me at Lake Merriam Square. Another Publix just 1 1/2 miles west of me on Harden Boulevard near Lakeside Village. There are some things in life that are great!

When I was a kid growing up in Miami, we didn't have Publix stores down there then. When I was in the 10th grade, Publix built there first store there, Coral Way and Galloway, about a mile from us. When my Mom learned they was going to be a Publix near us, she was all excited. She had already known about them somehow. Of course as a teenager I didn't know what the big deal was! Just another grocery store, right? Right.

Ray, we shopped at the Publix on Miller Rd and 95th. Had the old neon sign out front

[rburnett]

Originally Posted by toon66

GreenWise in S Tampa around 6pm. Panera and Starbucks in the morning. Pharmaceutical reps stack up like tarpon on an outgoing tide.

is that where the term "poon" came from?

[g8rchica]

I agree

[RayGator]

Wednesday 1.23.2013 Tampa Tribune
Richard Mullins, Page 1A, top of the fold!

Publix To Build Upscale Market In Carrollwood

The Publix Store At Dale Mabry Highway And Fletcher Highway Is Very Much A Traditional Publix. Not For Long

>> Publix will soon tear down the store and rebuild the site into a vastly different, luxurious new store that's the first of it's kind in the region.

When built, shoppers there might well think they've walked into a Greenwise store. It'll have a sit-down cafe and loads of fresh-made foods and organic produce. But the new store will take the upscale concept further in its inventory and design. <<

http://www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/busin...oll-ar-613614/

Very interesting article on the front page of the Tampa Tribune with good news for folks in the Carrollwood suburb north of Tampa. Sounds like their new Publix will be similar to the one I have nearby at Lake Merriam Square in Lakeland. Which just went through a major remodeling. About the third one I can recall in recent years. And sounds from the article there will be more remodeled/new Publixes to come in different areas.

[toon66]

GreenWise is the Publix version of Whole Foods. It's pretty good.

[MMCaneOL]

Originally Posted by RayGator

Wednesday 1.23.2013 Tampa Tribune
Richard Mullins, Page 1A, top of the fold!

Publix To Build Upscale Market In Carrollwood

The Publix Store At Dale Mabry Highway And Fletcher Highway Is Very Much A Traditional Publix. Not For Long

>> Publix will soon tear down the store and rebuild the site into a vastly different, luxurious new store that's the first of it's kind in the region.

When built, shoppers there might well think they've walked into a Greenwise store. It'll have a sit-down cafe and loads of fresh-made foods and organic produce. But the new store will take the upscale concept further in its inventory and design. <<

http://www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/busin...oll-ar-613614/

Very interesting article on the front page of the Tampa Tribune with good news for folks in the Carrollwood suburb north of Tampa. Sounds like their new Publix will be similar to the one I have nearby at Lake Merriam Square in Lakeland. Which just went through a major remodeling. About the third one I can recall in recent years. And sounds from the article there will be more remodeled/new Publixes to come in different areas.

Publix just did this on Longboat Key.... Feels like Im walking into a Whole Foods (including the crowds )

[Juggernautz]

Originally Posted by gator0254

If I am going to have shrimp my usual move is to go to Mayport and pick up the jumbos at Safe Harbor seafood - when I was growing up it was actually the site of Monties Marina - now a wonderful seafood shop

Stopped there a couple of months ago. There inventory is amazing plus rode the ferry(possibly on its last legs) as a bonus.

[RayGator]

Sunday 2.24.13 The Lakeland Ledger
Kyle Kennedy

Publix Is In Good Position For 2013

2012 Was Marked By Growth And Innovation For The Supermarket Chain

>> Publix Supermarkets, Inc. appears to be on track for a very successful 2013.

That was the prevailing message from supermarket and retail experts interviewed by The Ledger to discuss recent Publix ventures and the company's prospects for 2013.

Lakeland-based Publix is scheduled to release its 4th Quarter and full year 2012 financial results Friday. Looking back, 2012 was another year marked by growth and innovation for the 83-year-old supermarket chain.

Publix raked in a profit of $1.2 Billion in the first 9 months of the year, up 6.1% from the same period in 2011. Sales through the 3rd Quarter increased 3.9% to $20.5 Billion.

Publix debuted in the Knoxville, Tenn. market in 2012 and announced an expansion onto the state of North Carolina, the first such expansion since Publix entered Tennessee more than a decade ago.

The company continued to experiment with its store formats and began testing an online deli ordering system in select locations. Locally, Publix opened the area's first Aprons Cooking School at the Lake Miriam Square store in Lakeland; the store also is the first in Polk County to include the Aprons Event Planning service.

More recently, Publix has deepened its push into social media by formally joining Twitter earlier this month, and is currently in the process of rolling out a digital coupon system across all stores.

Things are looking bright for Publix in 2013, according to the experts contacted by The Ledger, though they say Publix and other grocers will still have to deal with myriad economic pressures.

"Publix is sitting really good right now. They've stayed focused." - David Livingston, DJL Research.

"Not every chain is growing, I think it says something that Publix is still finding ways to grow, both in their own territory in Florida and the Deep South. They're one of the companies that has consistently been growing otganically in new markets." - Jon Springer, Retail Editor for Supermarket News. <<

http://www.theledger.com/article/201...07/0/FRONTPAGE

Good article on the future for Lakeland based Publix! It's in it's 83rd year.

And no doubt LULU and JR were very happy to get a Publix in Knoxville last year!

www.publix.com

[ovillegator]

Best Christmas ads on TV, too.

[RayGator]

And at Thanksgiving, too!

[LeafUF]

Welcome back Publix thread. I need to get to Florida soon for a pub sub. And I guess to visit my family and friends. Yeah that too.

[baygator1]

Originally Posted by LeafUF

Welcome back Publix thread. I need to get to Florida soon for a pub sub. And I guess to visit my family and friends. Yeah that too.

I'm a Publix fan, too. And I agree...they do make some fine sub sammiches.

[CHFG8R]

If you want something truly sublime, try the Triple Ripple cookies. They're gone at ours shortly after noon (but they'll bake me some if I ask). Think brownie meets CC Cookie with some white chocolate thrown in.


MMMMMMM. . .

[LeafUF]

Ill have to remember those. When people come to visit they are obligated to bring cookies from Publix.